Subject: Re: (declare (thread-special *foo* ...))
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/11/23
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3183959327296218@naggum.net>

* Kent M Pitman
| specials on all those processes, you can see the kind of "memory leak"
| effect that makes Unix have to get booted more often.  

* Espen Vestre
| uh? more often than every 3 to 6 months? which unix have you been using 
| lately? 

  Not Linux, apparently, where the most frequent reason to reboot is to
  use a new kernel revision.  However, on my production system, we still
  run kernel revision 2.2.14 because I have sort of waited for today:

  9:53am  up 300 days,  6:00,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

  Other software that has been running exactly as long are screen 3.9.5,
  Emacs 20.5, and Allegro CL 5.0.1.  Allegro CL 6.0 just arrived, kernel
  revision is at 2.2.18pre21, a few days old , Emacs 21.1 just got into
  pretest and the new version of my own software is ready to install,
  all coinciding randomly at 300 days of uptime.  All we need now is for
  a certain presidental election to release a final version of who won.

#:Erik
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